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* 1897 – After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
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* 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist ( d. 1897 )
* 1897 – Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter ( d. 1983 )
Australia resoundingly won the 1897 – 98 series by 4 – 1 under the captaincy of Harry Trott.
* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
* 1897 – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer ( d. 1945 )
* 1897 – Max Weber, Swiss politician ( d. 1974 )
* 1897 – Jandamarra, Indigenous-Australian resistance leader ( b. c. 1873 )
* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )
During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.
), Prosopographia Imperii Romani, 3 vol., Berlin, 1897 – 1898.
* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
* 1897 – The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
* 1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
* 1897 – Ardito Desio, Italian topographer ( d. 2001 )
* 1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress ( d. 1972 )
* 1975 – Fredric March, American actor ( b. 1897 )
* 1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar ( b. 1897 )
Oldtiden og den ældre Middelalder, pp. 570 – 735 ( Copenhagen, 1897 – 1905 ).
* 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
* 1897 – Thornton Wilder, American dramatist ( d. 1975 )
* 1897 – Enid Blyton, English author ( d. 1968 )
* 1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet ( d. 1970 )
1897 and After
After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.
After a disappointing record of 59-73 and a 9th-place finish in 1897, Anson was released by the Cubs as both a player and manager.
After hearing about the rigid airship constructed by David Schwarz and witnessing its trial flight at the Tempelhof Airfield near Berlin on 3 November 1897, he proceeded to buy the patent rights from the widow of the prematurely deceased Schwarz, in order to allow Carl Berg to supply aluminium.
After being launched on 17 May 1897, it was eventually purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Holland.
After moving to Lausanne with his parents as a boy, he returned to England at the age of 11 without them ; three years later, at " the somewhat advanced age of 14 ," he began attending Malvern College and, later, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst from 1897 to 1898.
After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera ( Hofoper ).
After the death of Šustala, von Roeslerstamm took over running the company and in 1897 he bought a Benz automobile.
After the removal of the convent in 1836 with the first disentailment laws, the city claimed ownership of the land, a fact that occurred in 1897.
After struggling to find a permanent home venue during its time in the VFA, Carlton established Princes Park as its home venue when it joined the VFL in 1897.
After a referendum and a bitter legislative fight, the county seat moved from Springer to Raton in 1897.
After a four-month-long lecture tour that ended in April 1897, Gilman began to think more deeply about sexual relationships and economics in American life, eventually completing the first draft of Women and Economics ( 1898 ).
After receiving her teacher certification from the University of Colorado in Boulder, she began teaching in Wabbaseka in 1897 and died there in 1944.
After attendance outgrew the early frame building in 1897, another school was built with Professor A. E.
After becoming a village on May 8, 1865 ( still in the Town of Wheatfield, but as part of Martinsville, New York ), North Tonawanda was incorporated as a City on April 24, 1897.
After a short illness Giles died of pneumonia at his nephew's house in Coolgardie on 13 November 1897 and was buried at the Coolgardie Cemetery.
In the late 19th century, Henry Gassaway Davis, at the time a U. S. Senator, founded the Junior Coal Company and named it after his son, Henry Gassaway Davis, Jr. After Davis ' son drowned off the coast of Africa in 1897, the elder Davis asked that the town name be changed in memory of his son.
After Holden's death in 1897, his house, called Oakworth House, and its contents were sold at auction, and the house was all but destroyed by fire in 1907.
After 1897 the tradition died out, apparently because the ' real Gypsies ' had disappeared.
After he attended the Colonial Conference in London in 1897, he became known " as one of the pillars of British imperialism ", and he was a strong supporter of the Second Boer War and of preferential trade between British colonies.
After his theater career faltered, he became a furniture maker in 1897, and Green collaborated with him on some of his designs.
After the end of the war, he attended the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, and on graduation in June 1897 was assigned to the IJA 7th Infantry Regiment.
After graduating from high in 1897, he got his first job in newspapers, doing illustrations and engraving.
After graduating in 1897 he initially joined a local law firm in his home town.
After personal intercession by Pope Leo XIII his election was finally sanctioned in 1897.
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